Television king of southern India where his Sun TV Network rules. He owns 77% of what is the country's biggest regional broadcaster with 20 television channels and 46 FM radio stations. Interests include Sun Direct, a direct to home television service, co-owned by Malaysian billionaire Ananda Krishnan's Astro Group, which has 4.5 million subscribers. His Sun Pictures, a film production outfit, is shooting a big-budget movie with a well-known cast, billed as India's most expensive movie-to-date. Is mulling expansion into aviation. His fortune on the rise after patch up with his powerful granduncle M.Karunanidhi, chief minister of the southern state of Tamil Nadu with whom his family had a bitter falling out. Following the rapprochement, his politician brother Dayanidhi, who was forced to resign as communications and IT minister, was reinstalled as minister for textiles after last May's federal elections.